Pygmalion and Galatea (after Etienne-Maurice Falconet)

The theme of this small porcelain group is nothing less than the myth of sculptural creation itself: the way in which an artist makes inert materials come to imaginative life. Painters of this myth can use color to show the transformation of the standing Galatea from ghostly white marble to flesh and blood. But how does Etienne-Maurice Falconet, in this piece, make you believe that Galatea has just come alive for the kneeling sculptor? What means does he have at his disposal?